Peptic Ulcer in Adults

摘要: 34 male peptic ulcer patients were compared to (a) a group of 37 healthy controls and (b) 36 hospitalized suffering from illnesses unrelated the gastrointestinal tract. Patients submitted Eysenck personality inventory, Foulds’ hostility questionnaire, Langner’s 22-item Hopkins symptom checklist, Zung’s self-rating anxiety scale, Spielberger’s state-trait Beck’s rating scales for depression, 43-item life event inventory by Holmes Rahe. All suffered duodenal ulcer. The parameters that differentiated statistically significant degree either one or both groups were: neuroticism, trait state anxiety, (c) guilt, (d) general psychopathology, (e) stressful events. Additionally, more than 50% had at least first-degree relative with These observations indicate psychopathological, psychosocial, characterological hereditary factors are important pathogenetic contributors in